Winston Churchill Had a Penchant for Islam

December 29, 2014 4:28 PM

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Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War, had an admiration for Eastern culture and was willing to convert to Islam. The Information was revealed through a letter written in August 1907 and discovered by a researcher at the University of Cambridge, Warren Dockter. The letter was written by then Churchill’s future sister-in-law.

“Please don’t become converted to Islam; I have noticed in your disposition a tendency to Orientalize… If you come into contact with Islam your conversion might be effected with greater ease than you might have supposed, call of the blood, don’t you know what I mean, do fight against it,” lady Gwend...